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Internship Orientation

Finding Books & Media

Books and media on resumes and professional portfolios can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings. In addition you have limit your results to Audio Visual materials.
For Example:
    • health care and vocational
    • Health care and resumes
    • cover letters and resumes
    • interviewing and job hunting
    • Portfolio

If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog
View Tip sheet: Ohiolink Central Catalog

Suggested Subject Headings:

Allied health personnel -- Vocational guidance
Cover Letters
Employment interviewing
Job Hunting
Medical personnel -- Vocational guidance
Resumes

Browse the Shelves by Call Number:

HF5383 (cover letters and resumes)
R 690 (health care careers and resumes)

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Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection

Books in the library's collection:

HD6273 .D43 First job survival guide: how to thrive and advance in your new career
HF5383 .I55 2012 CV book: your definitive guide to writing the perfect CV
HF5383 .S25 2011 Step-by-step resumes : build an outstanding resume in 10 easy steps!
HF5383. Y378 2012 Knock 'em dead cover letters : cover letter samples and strategies you need to get the job you want
LC1072.I58 S945 2009 The successful internships
R690 .E527 2010 Expert resumes for health care careers
R690 .R48 2004 Resumes for health and medical careers

Online books

Safari Tech Books Online: is a database of online books in computer science, information technology, and related fields.(search under professional development)

101 great answers to the toughest interview questions
101 smart questions to ask on your interview
Career portfolio workbook : using the newest tool in your job-hunting arsenal to impress employers and land a great job
Fulfilling workplace the organization's role in achieving individual and organizational health
How to land a top-paying federal job : your complete guide to opportunities, internships, résumés and cover letters, application essays (KSAs), interviews, salaries, promotions, and more!
Insider guide to getting your ideal internship
Step-by-step cover letters : build a cover letter in 10 easy steps using personal branding

Audio -Visual in the library's collection

BJ2041. W45 20008 DVD
Which fork should I use?
HF5549.5.I6 M842 2010 DVD
Job seeker: interviews dos and don't

Online Audio-Visual

Career Portfolio
Defining and developing your portfolio
Diversity in the Workplace
Professional career tools
Using and maintaining your portfolio

Recommended Databases:

Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. check the TipSheet
View a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCO Host Databases
View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCO host databases

Vocational and Career Collection: Access to trade and industry-related periodicals. A good place to start for vocational and technical research.

Finding Articles

  • Review the differences between scholarly, trade and popular journals

  • Trade Journals are geared towards professionals in a discipline. They report news and trends in a field, but not original research. They may provide product or service reviews, job listings, and advertisementsocate articles on your career field.

    • Develop an online search strategy using Boolean operators and truncation to locate articles on your career field.

      • For Example:
        • Health care and (vocational guidance or career development)
        • Nurse* and occupational roles
        • (Health care or health provider) and career
      • Limited your results to trade journals

Journals in the library

In the back of the issues are job ads:
  • Journal of Medical Practice Management
  • Provider

Recommended Websites:

Part of the America's Job Bank network, this site provides information on hundreds of occupations.
A nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.
Source of practical information on jobs and careers; covers a wide variety of career and work-related topics.
Provides opportunities to internships and work opportunities in U.S. and abroad. Choose from a variety of categories (like Jobs in the Great Outdoors, or Meaningful Work)
Search through comprehensive internship opportunities abroa
Search for summer internships working in a wide variety of government sectors (Education, Law, Engineering and more).

Professional Organizations:

Professional Association of Health Care Office Management

Document Your Sources

The Smucker Learning Center's documents and information
Style Guides in the Library's collection:
Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association


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